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Sound walk SWS22 2022

Marconi Trail – Full Route

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195 minutes
Free
English

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audio stories

Sub-collection · 7 items

BBC

Collection · 11 items
Sub-collection

audio stories

Sub-collection · 7 items

BBC

Collection · 11 items
Explore what remains of Chelmsford’s historical links to Marconi and the early days of the wireless radio on this lovely town walk.

Explore what remains of Chelmsford’s historical links to the early days of wireless radio and the Marconi Company. Curated as part of the Communicating Connections oral history project run by the Essex Record Office. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

If you have an interest in the history of radio and communications, you’ll enjoy these walking trails in Chelmsford as they delve into the history of The Marconi Company, which was the world’s first wireless company in the world. Explore the Company’s links with the BBC, read local newspaper clipping experts about Chelmsford, plus hear audio stories from former employees of the Marconi Company.

APA style reference

Sage Fitzpatrick (2022). Marconi Trail – Full Route. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/marconi-trail-full-route/

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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